[gothic-l] Re: Are EE Jews half-Goths?

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi!
As far as I know the kagan and his people in the Chazarian state (Khazar)
between rivers Dnjepr and Don konverted to Judanism sometime in the 9th
century
cheers Tore

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>Hi again,
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>I still find that theory unconvincing. Perhaps one of the linguists on
>this list can solve the problem. Personally, I think that Yiddish was
>based on Middle High German not on East Germanic/Gothic.
>Also, I think you said that there is no record of Jews from Germany
>migrating to Eastern Europe. But I thought that there was an explicit
>invitation by a Polish King Kasimir to the Jews to come to his realm.
>Your theory still does not explain why this offspring of Goths and
>Caucasions should have became Jews. I don't understand why somebody
>who does not look German (as you say) but speaks German would become
>so confused by this that the next logical step is to adopt Judaism???
>Finally, we are pretty certain that Goths in the Ukraine mixed with
>Sarmats, but we have no indication that they abandoned their offsrping
>as 'bastards' when they moved on.
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>cheers
>Dirk
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